Republican Electoral College member says he won’t vote for Trump

This is a plot to distract the country from the stupendous Election-Day fraud in which millions of dead people cast their votes for Hillary Clinton. The states’ chosen electors would represent, so to speak, “the best and the brightest” of the nation, a sort of Plato’s Republic style of citizen philosophers who collectively would have the wisdom and judgment to pick the best man to be president of the United States. “This petition is unprecedented, but Donald Trump is an unprecedented danger to the Constitution”.

When you’re voting in a national election, you’re voting for your state’s electors, the folks who actually choose the president in December.

The pattern held in Wisconsin too, where Trump won fewer votes than Romney did in suburban Milwaukee and where Trump’s criticism of Gov. Scott Walker worked against him.

With all the hub-bub about the election results including many who are stirring up a proposed recount of the election, I did a little research of my own to check out the arguments against the system and the current playing field.

Sign the precedent-setting petition supporting Trump’s call for an independent prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton!

“Under Michigan law, I am obligated to vote for Donald Trump”, said Holmes, an elector and retired Hope College political science professor.

So-called “faithless electors” – who do not vote for their party’s designated candidate – have previously moved away from their state’s choice, but it has never affected the result of an election.

Either strategy is a fool’s errand.

Anyway, a group (meaning a couple) of members of the Electoral College have hatched a plan to keep Donald J. Trump from assuming the presidency.

The only way Democrats stand any chance of persuading Republican electors to abandon Trump is with a dramatic gesture of true bipartisanship.

“I am here to elect a president”, Suprun told The Associated Press, “not a king”.

I would like to think that 39 electors would hear the hundreds of thousands of protestors on the streets across our country, including Louisville.

“I watch Mr. Trump fail to unite America and drive a wedge between us”, Suprun writes. But leaving that aside, Trump didn’t win in a landslide in Electoral College votes either. That’s more than half of Republican electors.

Naturally, most rank-and-file Democrats would consider the idea of backing a Republican for president abhorrent.

Lee Strang, a law professor at the University of Toledo, noted that OH law requires electors to vote for their party’s nominee, and he said the Constitution is “clear” that states can enforce the requirement.

There are a lot of myths swirling around about the Electoral College: that it was created to protect small states, or because the Framers hated democracy, or because Alexander Hamilton needed a good topic for a rap. Trump boasted of his accomplishment at a post-election rally in Ohio.

HARRISBURG, Pa. – A Green Party-backed campaign changed its strategy to force a statewide recount of Pennsylvania’s November 8 presidential election, won by Republican Donald Trump, and said late Saturday night that it will seek help in the federal courts, rather than the state courts.

“In my view they’re both lethal to the environment”, said Stein.

Cannon is a resident scholar at the Cato Institute.